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Have you ever been to a Valium picnic? Or been guilty of scoodling? Or yearned for warm fuzzies? If those terms are totally bewildering, you may want to take a crash course in "biz speak," the increasingly colorful, and sometimes off-color, language of the business world. The vivid vocabulary that bounces around corporate corridors has been collected and codified by Journalist Rachel S. Epstein and Nina Liebman, an industrial-development specialist for the New York State department of commerce, in their new book Biz Speak: A Dictionary of Business Terms, Slang and Jargon (Franklin Watts; $17.95). This handy compendium...
People traditionally picnic along the banks of Charles, watching the races and enjoying the crowd. However, those planning on drinking alcoholic beverages might find it difficult to do so this year...
...Although picnic spaces will be in abundance,the same does not hold true for parking spaces...
...magic has changed, but it hasn't vanished.I will always treasure the Head of the Charles. Itgives me a chance to see old friends, to relive myhigh school days. I suppose that makes me atrue-blue preppy, but I don't mind.A picnic on the banks...
...with interlopers crowding their swimming pools and picnic tables, residents of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn voted last November to close the city's parks to outsiders. "Racism!" cried the local office of the A.C.L.U. and the Detroit chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., which promptly filed a suit against the town and kept the ordinance from being enforced. Dearborn (pop. 86,960) has fewer than 100 black residents, the N.A.A.C.P. argued, so only blacks would routinely be asked to show their city identification cards. "When they said 'residents only,' they were really talking whites only," said the Rev. Charles Adams...